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Dr. Esther Smidt
Professor of TESOL
College of Arts & Humanities - Languages and Cultures
Bio
Dr. Esther Smidt is a Professor of TESOL at West Chester University. Her field of teaching includes TESOL methods, pedagogy, and curriculum development, and online language teacher education. Her research agenda focuses on distance education. Her research has appeared in Computer Assisted Language Learning Electronic Journal, System, International Journal on E-Learning, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, and Computer Assisted Language Learning.
Expertise
- Distance Education
- Computer-assisted Language Learning
- Teaching English as a Second Language
Education
- B.Ed. TESL, University of Exeter, UK
- M.A. TESL, Iowa State University
- Ph.D. Ed, Curr & Inst, University of Minnesota